If beauty is only skin deep, that explains the ugly heart of the staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host of ABC’s The View, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners). During Wednesday’s show, she lashed out at WNBA star Caitlin Clark “because she’s white, because she’s attractive,” and because she’s not a lesbian.
Hostin, who sits on the board of advocates for the WNBA’s Players Association, seemed to resent that Clark was poised to bring a bunch of new fans and sponsorship opportunities to the league that WNBA star Brittney Griner couldn’t and chalked it up to her skin color because of it:
At all. And the WNBA started in 1996. First games played in 1997. It’s 2024, and we’re just really now talking about it and so if Caitlin Clark is the vehicle that will bring this sport that I have loved so much and so long to little 5‑year-old girls playing in Harlem, I say yes, bravo. I have no problem with that.
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With that being said, I do think that there is a thing …